Federal Grant opportunities: August 9

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Federal Funding Announcements:
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Recent Grant and Contract Awards:

Recipient	Amount	Granting Agency
Health Research, Inc.: Grants to States to Support Oral Health Workforce Activities	$500,000	HHS Health Resources and Services Administration
Health Research, Inc.: National Quality Improvement/Management Technical Assistance Center Cooperative Agreement	$2,185,000	HHS Health Resources and Services Administration
Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: NYS Oral Health and Chronic Disease Collaboration	$250,000	HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Research, Inc./NYS Department of Health: Surveillance, Intervention, and Referral to Services for Infants with Microcephaly or Other Adverse Outcomes Linked with the Zika Virus	$720,000	HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
NYS Department of Health: Maternal and Child Health Services	$9,325,132	HHS Health Resources and Services Administration
Port of Albany: Maritime Improvements Project	$17,629,800	Department of Transportation - TIGER
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Control of Na+ and H+ Transport in Bacterial Adaptation	$600,000	National Science Foundation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Extending a Large Multimodal Corpus of Spontaneous Behavior for Automated Emotion Analysis	$215,426	National Science Foundation - CI-SUSTAIN: Collaborative Research
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: In-Situ Thermomechanical Processing and Measurement in the Scanning Electron Microscope	$238,586	National Science Foundation - EAGER/DMREF
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Nonlinear Theory of Slow Light	$234,997	National Science Foundation - OP: Collaborative Research
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Student Learning Regarding Personal, Social and Professional Responsibility	$350,000	National Science Foundation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Towards High Power Output Electrostatic Energy Converters	$330,000	National Science Foundation
SUNY Research Foundation: Development of Improved Diagnostics, Numerical Models, and Situational Awareness of High-Impact Cyclones and Convective Weather Events	$150,000	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
SUNY Research Foundation: Northeast Regional Ocean Acidification Research	$295,035	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Troy Fire Department: Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER)	$972,377	Department of Homeland Security FEMA
TOTAL	$33,996,353

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